How Not To Spend Your 21st Birthday: Breaking Into The Lasch Football Building

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Tags: Holuba Hall, 21st Birthday, Lash Building

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Created: 07/24/2008
3:57 PM

I've always said there are a list of things you should do on your 21st birthday. Get your friends together. Go out to some of the bars in town for the first time. Do some shots. Throw up. And people who know me know I have a saying about 21st birthdays - "Don't break into the Lasch Football Building, put on a football helmet and cause $5,000 worth of damage."

Clearly Daniel J. Costenbader didn't heed my advice since he did just that early Thursday morning according to police. The Collegian reports that police were responding to a report of a fight at Holuba Hall when they saw a broken window at the Lasch Building. Once in the building police allegedly saw Costenbader wearing only jeans and a football helmet, he then picked up a replica of the Alamo Bowl trophy but put it down apparently without damage.

And of course today is Costenbader's birthday (happy birthday Dan!). What did he get?  How about charges of burglary, criminal trespass, criminal mischief, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property and public drunkenness and being released on $50,000 unsecured bail. Lucky duck!

So apparently Costenbader went to a friend's apartment at University Terrace (to pregame?) and to two bars downtown for the evening. At some point after he, allegedy, decided to jump the fence onto the football team's practice field, strip down to his boxers (what's with the drunken nudity man?) and hit tackling dummies on the field. He then, allegedly, broke a window at the Lasch Building with weights and flipped two tables and two trampolines and broke another window. Busy night.

Another thing people hear me say all the time is, "If you run into trouble with the law, the first thing you should do as soon as you get home is make sure people can't access you on Facebook." Lucikly Dan didn't follow that advice either. There, Dan lists his favorite activities as "getting huge" and "Phi Sigma Kappa." Uh oh! Roy Baker's not going to like hearing that. Sounds like some "frat boy" activity to me. Not exactly the "Fraternity man" stuff the director of greek life and advancement is looking for.